VITTORIO VENETO
The minimum for the World Cup and for the Europeans 2022 has won it. Now, only Italian citizenship is missing, the one that has been waiting for 2018.
Yesterday, in Rovereto, at the Palio della Querci, international athletics meeting, Catalin Tecuceanu, Romanian-Paduan in Silca Ultralite Vittorio Veneto, won the 800 in 1’45”19. After a start of the race in the middle of the group, he took the lead and started an acceleration that took him victorious to the finish line. Behind him the British Elliot Giles (second in the World Athletics seasonal ranking, already bronze at the 2016 European Championships) and Jake Wightman.
“I’m happy for the performance, I came here in good shape – says Tecuceanu – I hope that citizenship arrives as soon as possible, I would like to compete with Italy next year”. An absolutely outstanding performance for Lionello Bettin’s pupil who dreams of wearing the blue jersey: the middle distance runner has lived in Trebaseleghe since 2008, when with his mother and brothers he joined his father already in Italy for several years. In 2018 he applied for Italian citizenship. Previously, in 2017, he wore the Romanian national team jersey in international competitions and then, in the first half of 2018, he won the Romanian junior title of 800 and 1500. The time of Rovereto, as well as new personal and Italian seasonal record for members of Italian clubs, it is also Romania’s national record. “I hope that the process for citizenship undergoes a good acceleration, like that of Catalin in Rovereto, and that we can conclude” victorious “at the finish line – comments the president of Silca Ultralite, Aldo Zanetti – I believe that Tecuceanu can still give a lot satisfactions to Silca and also to give it to the Italian national team “. –